Nampak Plastics, a plastics packaging manufacturer based in the United Kingdom, has announced that every HDPE milk bottle it produces this year will contain at least 10 percent recycled content. The company says it produces about 2 billion milk bottles per year.
To reach that goal, the company has invested more than £1.5million (US$2.45 million) at its seven sites in the U.K. The investments have included modifications to the blow molding equipment including the installation of new blending machines, material pipe work and new silos to enable the use of recycled HDPE.
“Just four years ago ‘bottle-to-bottle’ recycling was unheard of in the UK dairy industry,” says Eric Collins, Nampak Plastics’ managing director. “Now we are adding up to 10 percent recycled content to all our bottles after extensive testing to ensure compliance with the extremely stringent food quality standards you would expect for this type of packaging.”
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